Help! Bonded Boys Now Fighting.

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my two boys pickle (12 months) and sparky (12 months) we’re bonded really well when I got them. Ever since my desexed female (mocha, 6 months) arrived my boys have gotten aggressive to eachother. Constantly they would chitter their teeth and attack eachother. To me sparky is protective over mocha and doesn’t want pickle to be near her. The boys are separated as they have drawn blood. Today I was getting poo of sparkys feet and he kept going over to pickle. He started to get aggressive and since he couldn’t get to pickle because he was in the cage, sparky sent me to hospital. Please help, they’re my baby boys and I’m hoping it’s just the puberty fase. I am getting a 70 cm x 210cm cage soon. Hopefully that’ll help.
 
Hi. It's the scent of the sow that's causing the aggression. Move your girlie into another room and the boys should settle. Alternatively/ preferably get the boys neutered and get them a girl each!
 
pig in the city said:
Hi. It's the scent of the sow that's causing the aggression. Move your girlie into another room and the boys should settle. Alternatively/ preferably get the boys neutered and get them a girl each!
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Ive tried moving the girl away from the boys and changing the fleece but they still went for eachother. My girl was a surprise present and cost 500$ for her to be neutered and where I’m from the only place that I trust hates doing guinea pig neutered.
 
Hoskothemumma said:
my two boys pickle (12 months) and sparky (12 months) we’re bonded really well when I got them. Ever since my desexed female (mocha, 6 months) arrived my boys have gotten aggressive to eachother. Constantly they would chitter their teeth and attack eachother. To me sparky is protective over mocha and doesn’t want pickle to be near her. The boys are separated as they have drawn blood. Today I was getting poo of sparkys feet and he kept going over to pickle. He started to get aggressive and since he couldn’t get to pickle because he was in the cage, sparky sent me to hospital. Please help, they’re my baby boys and I’m hoping it’s just the puberty fase. I am getting a 70 cm x 210cm cage soon. Hopefully that’ll help.
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Hi!

Can you please clarify:
- is Mocha living with your boys or within sight and reach of pheromones of them?
Spayed sows may not come into season anymore, but they are still sows, and your boys are currently still teenage boys. Indroducing sows into a boar room is never a good a idea.

- When you move boars into a new cage, especially when their bond is already under stress, please use dirty bedding to wipe down the new cage and use soiled bedding and furniture when moving them across so their new cage doesn't smell like new territory and you do hopefully avoid triggering a fresh hierarchy sort-out/group establishment in new territory, which can be a bond breaker even in a bonded adult pair.

Here are our very detailed tips for fragile teenage bonds:
Boars: Teenage, Bullying, Fighting, Fall-outs And What Next?
Bonding: Illustrated Dominance Behaviours And Dynamics
 
Wiebke said:
Hi!

Can you please clarify:
- is Mocha living with your boys or within sight and reach of pheromones of them?
Spayed sows may not come into season anymore, but they are still sows, and your boys are currently still teenage boys. Indroducing sows into a boar room is never a good a idea.

- When you move boars into a new cage, especially when their bond is already under stress, please use dirty bedding to wipe down the new cage and use soiled bedding and furniture when moving them across so their new cage doesn't smell like new territory and you do hopefully avoid triggering a fresh hierarchy sort-out/group establishment in new territory, which can be a bond breaker even in a bonded adult pair.

Here are our very detailed tips for fragile teenage bonds:
Boars: Teenage, Bullying, Fighting, Fall-outs And What Next?
Bonding: Illustrated Dominance Behaviours And Dynamics
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Mocha is living with one of my boys right now (pickle) and sparky is in a separate cage. Ive tried separating her into another room but both boys instantly went at eachother
 
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